UNTOLD Secrets of the HSL Range in Photoshop
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
- So you think you know everything about the HSL Adjustment Layer in Photoshop? Well, I have a doozy of a tutorial for you today!
I will uncover the HSL Range tool and show you how powerful this feature is that you are more than likely glancing over. I get it, those two bars at the bottom of the HSL Properties can be confusing, but it doesn't have to be!
I will show you how to use it to include analogous colors, exclude unwanted colors, and avoid color banding when adjusting the Hue Saturation or Luminance of a given color.
Video Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:22 What is Hue, Saturation, or Luminance
01:54 Understanding the HSL Range Tool
03:13 The Targeted Adjustment Tool
03:55 The Eye Dropper in the HSL Adjustment Layer
04:59 The Range and Feather Tools Explained
06:53 Landscape Practical Application
09:35 Portrait Practical Application
12:22 Limitations of HSL Range
14:16 You Won't Get It Right Away!
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Excellent, and very generous. Thank you very much !!!
Glad you liked it!
I am with Jen - your channel is answering the questions as I dive into very complex projects with no knowledge - just a go for it attitude. Thanks
Oh thank you! It's my sincere pleasure :) I LOVE what I get to do for a living.
Fantastic video Blake, the combination of the range slider and masking will be super helpful. Thanks for sharing these tips!😀
You bet! Always my pleasure!
Excellent! I can use this info today!
Glad it was helpful!
Wonderful tutorial, thankyou brother🥰
Incredible! Thanks a lot Blake! Very informative tutorial and tips as always! Good luck!
Thanks! Glad you found it!
Great video and excellent new ideas!! Thank you.
😁 thank you!
I love this video. Thank you.
So glad!
Wonderful tutorial, Blake! Thank you.
Thank you! It's my pleasure!
As always, nicely presented. Great camera angle, easier to promote images behind you.
Awesome! Maybe I'll make that camera angle stick :)
Useful info. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Great video Blake! You are real master of colors and great teacher.
Thank you so much 😁 I appreciate you!
Amazing video, you made this very easy to understand and incorporate in my workflow! Thank you!
Awesome! Glad I could help!
Thank you so much. It is really helpfull
My pleasure!
Now it's time to go and experiment. Thank you once again, Blake.
😁 my pleasure! Enjoy that experimentation time!
This is just sooooooo good. Thanks, Blake!
Thank you soooooo much 😁
Excellent video Blake! I was just an hour ago working with HSL, you cleared up a lot for me! Just in time ! :) You are always great to explain! Best wishes from distant Uruguay.
Oh that's so great to hear! I hope these tips help!
Thanks for the video! :)
My pleasure! Thanks for watching 😁
Great tips Blake, thank you sir! For the record, I like the camera angle.
Awesome, thank you! Maybe I'll keep it ;)
Thank you. I never understood that slider. The tip about removing all saturation to see where it applies is so helpful.
Glad you liked that 😁 that one took me a while to get right. I kept trying to use wacky hues and it just didn't work out.
Thanks for this one: this has always been a mystery to me!
My sincere pleasure!
Thank you, Blake. This really is a top tip. ✍👍
Glad you think so!
Great stuff! PS is sooo powerful! I also like your chair!
It's an awesome chair! If you work seated for long periods of time, it's great to help with posture.
@@f64Academy I do, where can I get one?
@@butch4111 secretlab.co it's the 2022 Titan Evo model in cookies and cream 😉
@@f64Academy Thanks!!
Well done.
Thank You!
Thank you so much! This will probably solve the problem I am having with some colour adjustments.
Awesome! Glad I could be help!
I just discovered your channel and I have to tell you how I appreciate and I am very grateful to you. You inspired me to get back to it before attempting AI.
That is awesome! Glad to hear it :)
Even iam not english i understand a lot thks so much
Awesome! Glad you were able to enjoy it.
Thanks Blake, Great explanation. Love Bear Lake. I hope you went across the lake to the rocks and used them as a fg element to capture the mountains in the bg. Great sunrise location.
I did not :( I was on the hike up to the other lakes and just caught the one side of it. I will be going back there soon and will keep that in mind :)
I’ve often struggled with colors that my print preview tells me are out of gamut for my printer and paper. I went so far as to read Adobe’s explanation of the HSL adjustment layer. Didn’t really get the concept until I watched this video. For that, thank you for a cogent explanation. Now, if I can only find a strategy for dealing with those out of gamut colors….
Thanks! That is tricky. Soft proofing could help, or, even if they are out of gamut, print a test print anyway. If they still look good, who cares? lol, that's how I see it. I mean to some degree we need to watch that stuff, but sometimes its good to let go, test and experiment even if they are there. I have had my PC tell me a color is out of gamut, but when I print it, it still looks good. That's assuming its a small area of course.
Thanks for sharing!! a while ago, I created some actions to generate Colour channel masks. I used them to help me see what is getting affected by the colour changes and fine tune the colour effects that I want!
That's a great way to separate the colors with masks. Using those masks with the HSL will just give you even more control.
@@f64Academy that is how I control the masks, I've tried several other filters but HSL gives the best results and better control. I feel that I got a good idea after watching this video!
This is very useful even if you are using a different application with similar HSL ajustment.
Sweet!
And hopefully someday Adobe finally updates this tool so that we can see which colors in the dropdown have been changed. That this tool hasn't been touched in decades is beyond sad.
Many of the Adjustment Layers, if not all of them, haven't been touched in decades, lol
@@f64Academy don't remind me! Crazy to think about where we could be with color tools vs where we are... still in the 90s 🙄
@@eartho 😔
The benefit of the new camera angle is there is less purple behind you. On the flip side, the space looks cramped with the right wall and desk surface so close to you. Maybe you could go back to the old angle but ditch the purple lighting?
Thanks! I'll keep working at it 😁
Is the very nice color wheel you show available for download?
It's included in my recent Chroma profiles and presets. I don't want to devalue that product so I do not provide it as a free download.
Well, that's the best tutorial I've found so far on CZcams explaining the range sliders in the HSL adjustment layer. But, I'm not there yet in terms of comfortably and confidently fully understanding and adjusting them. Other than practicing and fiddling a lot to gain more skill about them, I would really appreciate a more detailed and expansive tutorial describing and using them.
Thanks so much! I think it comes down to using it in pracitcal application in your own work. Setup experiments for yourself and just use it :) I can teach an hour on it and still get the same comment from someone else. Practical Application and getting your "hands dirty" with it is the only way to embrace it.
Set yourself up with an image, apply a horrible adjustment and play with the sliders. Mentally or physically record the response. Then do it again, and again and again. Where yo use a pattern is where you can determine how to use it with success. As I mentioned, I experimented with it for over 3-6 hours before recording and about 3 hours the day before that. At least 6 hours of just that slider. I hate to call it out, but sometimes you just have top put the work in. Ball is in your court, take it to the hoop! :)
@@f64Academy Thank you very much Blake for promptly responding. You, as an expert, having to spend at least 6 hours on just those sliders to get it right speaks volumes to me of the need for Adobe to rethink the HSL adjustment layer for changing colors. The bottom sliders approach in my view is awkward, too complicated, and takes an excessive amount of time to get the desired outcome right.
Adobe has done impressive work in vastly improving and facilitating some of its Photoshop editing capabilities using so-called artificial intelligence. Perhaps they ought to bring that technology to bear in sorting out changing colors via the HSL adjustment layer.
@@branchau it's an antiquated tool, for sure. But when I say 6 hours, that's not a lot of time to get to a strong level of understanding. What I do is have several images on hand that take in content so I can experiment. I'd recommend the same for you.
Put several images of various things you shoot into a folder and always use those as your controlled experiments. It makes working with these tools so much easier when experimenting.
@@f64Academy Thanks for your advice Blake.
For the banding, it would be great to add a switch reducing the high colors...
It would be nice Adobe update these strong tool.
(Excuse for my english I'm french) :)
Yeah, lots of tools need updating for sure!
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My brain just went pop, is this normal? 😂
Haha! I'm just a photographer with a finger painting degree, not a doctor 🤣
Bear Lake, do you live in CO?
No 😔 I live in Kansas City and drive out that way occasionally.
@@f64Academy if you haven’t been to Hanging Lake yet, I would recommend checking it out the next time you are in CO Blake.
First off, better camera angle! Great, clearly presented and demonstrated method but the best bit? Go away and do it on your own images until you know you've really grasped it. 👍🏻
Amen to that 😁 practical application always wins 😁
I was always waiting to someone open the door unintentionally … so I prefer the old angle … 🤭
haha! Nah, my wife and kids stay away from my office, they know it always work work work down here haha
This panel becomes far more useful once you switch to the Lab mode.
Good to know!
@@f64Academy yea, you can put RGB image into a smart object as a child document.
And set mode to Lab for the parent document.
Lab has better color science, so colors could be pushed more but still look good.
Great clip, very visual. Please speak a little slower
I appreciate it! I know my voice well now and my cadence will not change. After doing this for over 12 years, I know my education style and who it pertains to. Please do not take offense to this, but beginners or those who speak a different language other than English have a difficult time with my videos. They pause them often or slow them down. Intermediate to advanced users appreciate my cadence because I don't waste time with a slower cadence. I receive comments from people all the time who say, "I used to think you talked fast, but now that I know PS better, I think your cadence is perfect"
My speed may be a measure of your skill level in Photoshop and there is nothing wrong with that :) Slow me down in the play bar or pause often.